Legend of the Great Sage

ned around.
He stared straight at Li Qingshan with his teary eyes.
“You’re right.
I’m just a guide.
You still have to walk the path yourself.
Don’t count on me to help you with anything.
I have my own matters to deal with!”

He had to attempt the seventh heavenly tribulation to become a True Immortal.
Only then did he have a chance at revenge.

Actually, after all these years of consolidation and the contribution of countless Human Sovereigns, it had been sufficient a long time ago.
He had even lived longer than most True Immortals.
However, he did not have the courage to try.
He was afraid of being killed by the tribulation lightning, he was afraid of being killed by the demon of death, the mṛtyu-māra, and he was afraid that he would succeed.

He had once thought, Since I already have eternal life, why should I take a risk like that? If I really arrive beyond the Nine Heavens and become wrapped up in a crisis of the world, I might end up dying sooner instead.

He refused to face those familiar faces again, much less join another side, whether it was his leader from the past or that terrifying man.
He did not dare to oppose either of them.

He would rather hide in hell as a measly Hell Guard and avoid the crises like that, thinking of himself as clever.

Only now did he understand that the reason why he could avoid it all was because the two men allowed him to.

One used him as a sign post to demonstrate his mercy and generosity, to encourage even more people to surrender.
The other respected their past, reluctant to drag him into the waters away and pull him back onto the battlefield.

That was why he could drag out an ignoble existence.
Actually, all of the crises of the world involved devastating battles.
Even the Hell realm enjoyed no peace.

Even several of the Ten Courts of Yanluo had perished, and who knew how many generations of the Ten Hell Guards they had cycled through already, yet a traitor like him had managed to survive.

Towards the end of the previous crisis, the infamous Intelligent Stone Monkey barged into the underworld, wanting to save his “fifth brother”.
The Four Great Adjudicators fled a little slowly, and three of them perished under a single sweep of his staff.
The monkey patted him on the head.
“Heh, I, Old Sun, will spare your life in consideration for this ox head of yours.
If you run into me next time, you better not blame me for not showing any mercy!”

That was why he managed to have a lucky escape.

But just how many more times lucky could he get? The crises of the world became more and more intense as well as more and more frequent.
Perhaps next time, he would be sent onto the battlefield, then he really would be a measly nobody.
Even if it was just for the sake of preserving his own life, he had to do something.

Even when it came the damned kid beside him who seemed a little foolish, he had been born for a crisis and possessed an extremely heavy murderous nature.
He would never be soft-handed when it came to butchering traitorous dogs.

He was not some incredibly powerful figure right now, but just how much time had passed since the leader told him that he was still a mortal? In the past, even the Intelligent Stone Monkey was just a shitty rock!

“If you can’t help me, then you can’t help me.
What’re you glaring at me for?”

Li Qingshan scratched his head, becoming even more puzzled by what went on inside Ox-headed A’pang’s head.

“C’mon, time waits for no one.
We need to set off!” Ox-headed A’pang realised that he was running out of time.
Otherwise, if this kid ended up patting him on the head.
“Heh, I’ll spare your life in consideration for this ox head of yours.” then he really would be better off just throwing his head against a wall and dying.

Though, the conversation that was much more possible was.
“Haha, I’m kidding with you.
Tell me, are you Le Tian? Look at my middle finger.
Tell me, is it six? Is it six?” He had absolutely no doubts that this kid was capable of something like that.
He was much worse than that monkey.

“Alright then!” Li Qingshan saw how Ox-headed A’pang had suddenly become hostile, so all he could do was follow along.
Then he asked, “How do I get the adjudicator to banish me to the eighteenth layer of hell?” He personally believed he had not committed any major sins yet.
If he only banished him to the upper layers, then wouldn’t he be going through all that suffering for nothing?

Ox-headed A’pang droned, “Just act like how you are normally.”

After walking for who knew how long, a greenish-grey stone tablet appeared, planted beside the Road to the Yellow Springs.
A single word was scrawled on there, “Underworld.”